From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-12.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 888A7C433E0 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 06:05:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B88122AED for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 06:05:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726609AbgLXGFJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Dec 2020 01:05:09 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:36266 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726247AbgLXGFJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Dec 2020 01:05:09 -0500 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 149C922AAA; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 06:04:27 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 10:19:18 +0200 From: Leon Romanovsky To: Alan Perry Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] rdma.8: Add basic description for users unfamiliar with rdma Message-ID: <20201223081918.GF3128@unreal> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 08:47:51PM -0800, Alan Perry wrote: > Add a description section with basic info about the rdma command for users > unfamiliar with it. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Perry > --- > man/man8/rdma.8 | 6 +++++- > 1 file changed, 5 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man/man8/rdma.8 b/man/man8/rdma.8 > index c9e5d50d..d68d0cf6 100644 > --- a/man/man8/rdma.8 > +++ b/man/man8/rdma.8 > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > -.TH RDMA 8 "28 Mar 2017" "iproute2" "Linux" > +.TH RDMA 8 "22 Dec 2020" "iproute2" "Linux" > .SH NAME > rdma \- RDMA tool > .SH SYNOPSIS > @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ rdma \- RDMA tool > \fB\-j\fR[\fIson\fR] } > \fB\-p\fR[\fIretty\fR] } > > +.SH DESCRIPTION > +.B rdma > +is a tool for querying and setting the configuration for RDMA, direct > memory access between the memory of two computers without use of the > operating system on either computer. > + Thanks, it is too close to the Wikipedia description that can be written slightly differently (without "two computers"), what about the following description from Mellanox site? "is a tool for querying and setting the configuration for RDMA-capable devices. Remote direct memory access (RDMA) is the ability of accessing (read, write) memory on a remote machine without interrupting the processing of the CPU(s) on that system." Thanks, Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky